Obituaries
Franklin Asbury
Feb 15, 2009
Obituary for Franklin Asbury
MISSOULA - Franklin Benton Asbury, 76, better known as Ben to those who loved him, was born Feb. 11, 1933, to Elmo Franklin and Esther Kathleen Asbury in Ismay. Ben graduated from Hamilton High school in 1953. He bounced around several jobs and a business while helping his wife, Ida, run the apartment house on...
Beryl Righter
Feb 15, 2009
Obituary for Beryl Righter
MISSOULA - Beryl Gable Righter passed away Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009, with her son at her side. She was born October. 11, 1920, at Columbia, Penn., to Albert R. and Mabel Hull Gable. She was the baby of the family and had an older brother Charles and sister Florence, both of whom are de-ceased. Her...
Sharon Auerbach
Feb 14, 2009
Obituary for Sharon Auerbach
CLINTON - The exuberant light of our lives was extinguished on Valentine’s Day, 2009, when Sharon Lynn Auerbach, 64, died at her home surrounded by her family, after a courageous battle with ovarian cancer. Always thoughtful, Sharon used this day when love is expressed, to release her family and friends from their pain of watching...
Ruby Wicks
Feb 11, 2009
Obituary for Ruby Wicks
HUSON - Ruby Wicks passed away Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009, as the result of a fall at her home in the Ninemile area. She was born May 18, 1927, in Valparaiso, Neb., to John and Grace Lehman. At the age of 14, she moved to Montana with her family. They settled in the Three Mile...
Noah Mitchell
Feb 11, 2009
Obituary for Noah Mitchell
MISSOULA - Noah Feurhie Mitchell, infant son of Terry and Paje Mitchell, was born and died Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009, at Community Medical Center. I am a mother in sorrow. I don’t know what to write about my son, except the loss of him has shattered my world, and the loss of the right words...
Kim Cuc Nei
Feb 9, 2009
Obituary for Kim Cuc Nei
MISSOULA - Kim Cuc Nei passed away Feb. 9, 2009, in Missoula, after a 29-year battle with cancer. She was born April 7, 1940, in Hanoi, Vietnam, to Thu Van Trinh and Thin Thi Nguyen. Kim married Lanny “Mel” Nei on June 21, 1972 in Saigon. She was the last survivor of her family...
Robbin Randle
Feb 9, 2009
Obituary for Robbin Randle
MISSOULA - Robbin Lorrayne Randle moved to Polson in 2006, to be near family but an accident intervened, placing her in St. Patrick Hospital and she was relocated to Village Health Care and later the Beehive in Missoula. At each, she loved and was loved by all and for whose efforts her family is very...
Kevin Murphy
Feb 9, 2009
Obituary for Kevin Murphy
MISSOULA - Kevin Patrick Murphy died Monday, Feb. 9, 2009, due to diabetic complications. He was born June 7, 1961, in Missoula to Sylvester and Mae Murphy. Kevin has left us for Hot Rod Heaven in a ride not so stylish, but still made it look good nonetheless. Kevin was a giant dwarfed only the...
Homer Sickels
Feb 8, 2009
Obituary for Homer Sickels
MISSOULA - Homer D. Sickels, 92, of Missoula, passed away Sunday Feb. 8, 2009, at St. Patrick Hospital after a brief illness. He was born near Wolf Point, November. 28, 1916 to Guy and Verga Sickels. Homer was raised on a farm in the Wolf Point area where he worked as a farm and ranch...
Bill Burkhardt
Feb 7, 2009
Obituary for Bill Burkhardt
MISSOULA - Bill Burkhardt, 78, died Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009, of natural causes after an extended illness in the assisted living setting in Missoula that became his home over the last several years. He was born, January. 3, 1931, and raised in Liberty, Mo., the youngest of eight children born to Carl Alonzo and Haidee...
David Koester
Feb 7, 2009
Obituary for David Koester
MISSOULA - Dave Koester, 78, passed Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009, at Bee Hive Homes in Missoula, after a long, difficult battle with Parkinson’s disease and congestive heart failure. Dave was born to Dorothy and Fred Koester on March 3, 1930, in Painesville, Ohio. He attended Mentor High School in Mentor, Ohio, where he excelled in...
Steven Sandtner
Feb 6, 2009
Obituary for Steven Sandtner
MISSOULA - Steven J. Sandtner, 101, passed away Friday, Feb. 6, 2009, his late wife’s birthday, at his residence in Missoula from natural causes. He was born December. 22, 1907, in Chicago to Stephan and Juliana Sandtner, immigrants from Hungary. When he was 4 years old, his mother died and he and his three sisters...
Nicia LePiane
Feb 6, 2009
Obituary for Nicia LePiane
MISSOULA - Nicia Darlene LePiane passed away Friday, Feb. 6, 2009, from complications following surgery at St. Patrick Hospital. She was born Nicia Darlene Osness on January. 22, 1975, in Murray Utah. Nicia moved to Montana in 1997, obtained her GED and attended the University of Montana for costume design. She married Christopher Todd LePiane...
Sally Wehmeyer
Feb 5, 2009
Obituary for Sally Wehmeyer
MISSOULA - Sally Elizabeth Kraemer Wehmeyer, 87, passed away Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, at St. Patrick Hospital. She was born on March 15, 1921, in Cold Spring, Minn., the third of Adam and Mary Kraemer’s 12 children. When Sally was just 14, her mother passed away, leaving behind a dozen mouths to feed in the...
William Farrington
Feb 4, 2009
Obituary for William Farrington
MISSOULA - William Ernest Farrington, age 76, of Missoula, died after a six-month battle with cancer at 5 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. He was born April 15, 1932, in Nappanee, Ind., to Lloyd M. and Marie Krauter Farrington. He married Susanne Fried April 12, 1970, on Long Island, N.Y. They resided in Sea Cliff,...
Charles Burmeister
Feb 2, 2009
Obituary for Charles Burmeister
SEELEY LAKE - Charles Fredrick William Burmeister, 83, of Seeley Lake, died of pneumonia Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009, at St. Patrick Hospital, surrounded by family. He was born June 12, 1925, in Woodhaven, Long Island, N.Y., the son of the late John and Anna Burmeister. He was the youngest of three siblings. He graduated from...
Mike Monaco
Feb 2, 2009
Obituary for Mike Monaco
MISSOULA - On Monday, Feb. 2, 2009, Mike Monaco gave one last squeeze to his lady’s hand and took his final journey. Mike began his 96-year-life journey September. 26, 1912, in Cantalupo, Italy, born to Antonio Monaco and Loreta DiToro Monaco. In 1929, on his next journey, Mike followed his father’s lead, and at the...
Richard Minson
Feb 1, 2009
Obituary for Richard Minson
ST. REGIS - Richard A. Minson, 68, of St. Regis, passed away Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009, at St. Patrick Hospital. He was born on September. 2, 1940, in Missoula, the son of Louis A. Minson and Theresa C. Minson. He attended Hannah High School in Wyoming. On January. 22, 1961, he married Judith Marie Eixenberger...
Frank Knoll
Feb 1, 2009
Obituary for Frank Knoll
MISSOULA - Frank J. Knoll 83, passed away Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009, at St. Patrick Hospital of pneumonia. He was born January. 2, 1926, in Glendive to Joseph and Barbara Knoll. Frank joined the Navy at 17 and served in World War II in the South Pacific Islands with three years on active duty. He...
Brian Simkins
Jan 31, 2009
Obituary for Brian Simkins
ST. REGIS - Brian Keith Simkins, 48, of St. Regis, passed away Saturday, January. 31, 2009, at his home in St. Regis following a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was born June 29, 1960, in Superior to Gene and Gwen Simkins. As a child, Bud grew up with his two brothers and two sisters in...
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